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The week in theatre: Infinite Life; The Homecoming; Pacific Overtures – review

Chronic illness is captured to extraordinary effect in Annie Baker’s slow yet absorbing new play. Elsewhere, snarling Pinter lacks bite, while the songs eclipse all in rarely revived Sondheim

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Speaker McCarthy's departure from Congress reads like Greek tragedy – but stars a 'slight unmeritable man' and not a hero

Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s departure from Congress brings to mind ambition and the other side of ambition’s coin, humiliation – the thirst for fame and power on one side, ignominious failure on the other.

The Conversation

Making It So by Patrick Stewart audiobook review – from Shakespeare to stardom

The actor narrates his remarkable journey from a difficult childhood in West Yorkshire to finding fame in Hollywood

The Guardian - UK

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‘We’re in the now’: how Brussels theatre KVS keeps up to the minute

The Flemish theatre run by Michael De Cock has its own ‘city dramaturg’, functions like a town square and stages shows that reflect a vibrant capital, says the dynamic artistic director

The Guardian - UK

‘I studied the play in school – I hated it’: Cush Jumbo and David Tennant on playing the Macbeths

The Shakespeare virtuosos are about to share a stage in a modern-day version of the Scottish play. Fresh out of rehearsals, they discuss PTSD, childhood ambition and what makes them angry

The Guardian - UK

Chandler Bing pyjamas, a Shrigley frisbee and Bowie’s scarf: it’s the arts Christmas gift guide 2023

A Bear apron, a Van Gogh vase, a reversible Frida Kahlo jacket, a Britney death metal T-shirt … here, curated by our arts team, are 30 fabulous festive suggestions for the culture vulture in your life

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - We really, really need to decriminalise regifting

Forwarding on a present is not just totally fine, it’s eco-friendly: and needs to just be the norm

Evening Standard

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Jane Horrocks: ‘I’d love to be a baddie in a Tarantino movie’

The actor answers your questions on working with Mike Leigh, starring in a New Order video and dressing as a giant Snoopy at Harrods

The Guardian - UK

Music, the Metaverse of Magic and a Shakespearean romp are on

A potted comic romp through Shakespeare is also on.

The Canberra Times

Ishion Hutchinson: ‘I can hear a poem before it arrives’

The Jamaican poet on his new collection about West Indian soldiers in the first world war, diving into the messiness of language, and the book he rereads every autumn

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Ian McKellen's thrilling new show is just the kind of innovation the Evening Standard Theatre Awards celebrate

Our annual celebration of theatre is packed with fresh takes and new stories

Evening Standard

Saltburn director Emerald Fennell on why her follow-up to Promising Young Woman is actually a vampire movie

EXCLUSIVE: The writer/director speaks to us about queasy pleasure, Gothic horror, and The Cheeky Girls

Total Film

Ian McKellen will play Falstaff in Robert Icke's new Henry IV Shakespeare adaptation

Player Kings will see parts one and two of Shakespeare's 13th century historical drama compacted into one exhilarating new play

Evening Standard

The mathematical concept of Pi can now play Pokemon, but still can't find the first gym after 16,000 hours of trying

The first 6.3 million digits don't have the winning formula, but there's infinitely more to go

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Evening Standard

Acrobats, throat singing and Shakespeare: welcome to the Mongol Khan, London's wildest new theatre production

This is the first time a Mongolian play has ever been exported outside of the country

The Conversation

Restorers uncover demon in a 1789 painting – and reveal the decline of superstition in the Age of Reason

Recent news that restorers had uncovered the image of a Gothic-looking demon in a late work by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) seems fitting for these long, dark evenings. The sinister face hovers above the head of a dying clergyman in The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, painted in 1789.

The Guardian - UK

‘You could beat someone to death with that!’ Great theatre wigs – and their miraculous creators

Few things in theatre are more transformative than a wig. But who makes them? Can they really be worth thousands? And what looks best on a beheaded tyrant? We meet the hairpiece heroes and their yeti-like creations

The Independent UK

Immersive theater experience 'Sleep No More' will end its 13-year New York City run in January

The “Macbeth”-inspired immersive theater experience “Sleep No More” that is hosted in three empty, hulking warehouse spaces in downtown New York City will say goodbye early next year on its 5,000 performance

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Be the last leaf on the tree

Certain trees, such as oaks, hold onto their leaves through a little-understood quality known as marcescence.

The Guardian - UK

Luxury London tower near remains of Shakespearean theatre opens

Find from 16th century uncovered in building of £750m complex of 412 apartments now renamed the Stage

The Guardian - UK

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent review – Judi Dench’s seven-decade love affair

The veteran actor’s pragmatism, generosity and wit are to the fore in these reflections on her career – and there’s plenty of room for rude anecdotes

The Guardian - UK

John Adams: Antony and Cleopatra review – European premiere fuelled by molten chemistry

In his ambitious and richly orchestrated 2022 opera, the American composer makes Shakespeare his own, with a star cast to match

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Twelfth Night’ serves joy and laughter with a breezy Caribbean air

The comedy crackles in Chicago Shakespeare’s take on the bard’s zany love triangle

The Canberra Times

'Not what you might expect': Rough magic on Christmas Island

The new play will debut at The Street Theatre on November 10.

The Guardian - UK

Dead cats and hairdryers: Dominic Cummings’ evidence to Covid inquiry

Boris Johnson’s former adviser gave in-person and written evidence – here are some of his most startling claims

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